Age absolutely affects how I view a persons shared information........I mean seriously, I have seen kids as young as 11yrs old on here recently and if you ignore age as a determining factor on the quality of information you're quite likely doing yourself a disservice.

You have to ask yourself how much real life experience can this 13yr old kid have?........how much could he or she have come to these conclusions on their own?
I have heard the term used by an ol' timer forum guy I respect of "INFO SQUIRREL". That's what a lot of these younger guys are, they read the forums, and magazines and catalogs squirrel it away, and then turn around andpass this newlyaquired nut of knowledge of as fact and life experience.

You have to be realistic here, not saying that some of these hunters aren't great people, I'm sure they are and its great to see our sport in their future hands because they show passion.....but theFIRST thing I find myself doing when I read an informational post is trying to determine the posters age and then real life experience.

And of course there is a little bit of a sliding scale here for the teenage types like Dan who have been around a bit and have had some success on his own and through his own free thought.
There is also the newcomer who isn't necessarily a kid who shares the same boat.....these can be the tough ones to identify and weed out the useful information because many times they speak with a little more authority and can articulate it better generally.

Age, experience, reputation. You need to determine all 3 or you could set yourself back by blindly accepting that these things don't matter. IMO they do.